I Don't Understand Anything Anymore (Part 1)

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Still adore Obama. He is brilliant, sincere, unpretentious, classy. A true leader, gazing down, bemused, as the petty GOP contenders claw each other's eyes out like 13 year old girls.
The country is poised on the edge of recovery, thanks to his steady hand: unemployment is down, the stock market is up, the car industry is back in business, and banks are paying back the bailout money, with profits going to the government. Bin Laden is dead, and our boys are coming back from Iraq, just as he promised.
If only he could get his jobs bill past the obstructionist Republicans, who are willing to destroy the middle class simply to regain power, this country would be back on its feet in no time!
So glad there is absolutely no competition for his office. All the sane Republicans know there's not one among them that could handle the most difficult job in the world, so they're in hiding, while their two representatives, Romney (aka Romney-the-Dog-Abuser) and Gingrich (aka Gingrich-the-Wife-Abuser) battle it out.

Does anyone else have a really bad feeling about this new show
that Jerry Seinfeld is producing? This "Marriage Ref" reality
(I think?) show? Does anyone else have the sick feeling that
it is going to be as awful as anything ever produced by network TV
and… Read full post »

Today it was reported in the New York Times (no byline)
that a gang in the remote jungles of Lima, Peru has been kidnapping
and killing people to siphon off their fat, selling it to cosmetic
companies in Europe.

I haven’t been invited to any Halloween parties at least
as yet, but I anticipate this eventuality with the same dread every
year. What costume should I
wear? What can I dress as that does not make me
look; 1) fat, 2) like a whore 3) like a fat whore 4)… Read full post »

I’ve been wanting to blog on this topic for a while and
haven’t had time but OS writer Walter Blevins’
interesting blog on newly “supersized” uniforms for
flight attendants
(http://open.salon.com/blog/just-walt/2009/07/12/northwest_flight_attendants_demand_bigger… Read full post »

Well kids, it’s
happened again. Forget all this twaddle about
people going broke and losing their homes and living in tents and
not having enough money to buy milk and bread and Tall skim
frappuccinos.

Well people of OS – Here is my reportage on the Soiree,
aka The Salon, of Salon that took place last night, Thursday, April
16, 2009 in New York City, from approximately 6:30pm to 9pm (or at
least that’s when I left to go to work – half in the
bag… Read full post »

In keeping with my theme of
not being able to understand anything anymore, like, your shower:
(http://open.salon.com/blog/dcvdickens/2009/01/01/um_i_dont_know_how_to_operate_your_shower),
my thong: (http://open.salon.com/blog/dcvdickens/2009/01/14/i_put_my_thong_on_sideways_again)),
I explore the Ame… Read full post »

You read a lot about how stupid
and greedy these people were who bought homes they couldn't afford
with money they didn't have, resulting in bundles of "toxic"
mortgages that, when they ballooned in cost, began the collapse of
the house of cards it turns out the U.S.'s and in fact,… Read full post »

In the light of Nadya Suleman's (The Octomom) delivery of 8
babies, with 6 others still at home, and the interesting support of
her by many with conservative leanings, I offer this satire.
(Note: I originally wrote this soon after the babies were
born. Now, in 2012, Nadya is on public… Read full post »

1. I am completely turned off by photos of
men in sleeveless T-shirts no matter how lovely their bodies are
(the one exception being Marlon Brando). On the
other hand, a man in a uniform, an… Read full post »

I recently went to see “The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button”. Not bad, but not
memorable. A little too saccharine for my
tastes, but special effects were well done (although that’s
really truly not what I want to care most about in a
film).

I don't have anything to say and I'm on my way out the door, but
I'm just yelling here on my own and had to join my voices with
those in the crowds I'm watching on CNN. Hooray! Yes,
America, you did it! "A real sense of national pride!" (per
reporters)… Read full post »

You'd be surprised (or I suppose men would be surprised; not
women who wear these things) how easy it is to
do. This happens to me fairly regularly, me with
my undies on sideways, and sometimes I catch it before the jeans go
on, and sometimes I 'm… Read full post »

I'm one of those who
travels for the holidays; not to anywhere particularly fascinating,
but to the homes of friends and family who put me up in the spare
bedroom, on the couch, or who kindly kick their small children to
the floor so I have a place to… Read full post »

We’d all like to think
we’re not cruel people. We give to charity, we hold doors for
strangers, we think appropriately sad thoughts when we read sad
things in the paper. But the truth is, we sometimes are, and
the people to whom we are most often cruel are the ones
with… Read full post »